Colt Viper-NIB!

My grandpa once told me that he has every colt named after a snake. I've shot the python he has but never seen all the other ones. Does anybody know how many they named after snakes?
 
What a fine collectible Colt you got there. Who cares about shooting it? Its just a 38 special airweight. How thrilling could it be? The thrill is in owning it, owning such a rare firearm.

My grandpa once told me that he has every colt named after a snake. I've shot the python he has but never seen all the other ones. Does anybody know how many they named after snakes?
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Python, Cobra, Anaconda, King Cobra, Viper, Boa and Diamondback. I think that is all of them. The rarest is the Boa followed by the Viper.
 
Winchester 73:

Thank you very much for your comments! I agree that you are exactly right not to shoot such a rare Colt Viper!:)
 
Winchester 73:

Thank you very much for your comments! I agree that you are exactly right not to shoot such a rare Colt Viper!
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I always get a kick out of people who say they couldn't have a gun they don't fire. Like having one unfired is a paradox of sorts when really, they've never owned a gun where there was a choice to be made. Its easy for someone to say they'd shoot your viper, but what if they actually had such a gun themselves? Would their opinion be different? What if it was their most valuable piece? So they shoot their Ruger GP 100 Kimber 1911 and Glock 23? Well I would too.. After you reach a point where you have enough guns for shooting purposes, then safe queens make more sense. I have a Colt Officer's Model Match 22 with a little holster wear, and so my 4 in 22 Diamondback stays brand new in the safe. The OMM is a better shooter anyways.

When you have a special gun, why take the chance? Now with your viper, I may consider shooting it if I thought it was fired, but it would be few and far between the times I'd shoot it. You could always find a 38 special 4 in thats a $300 gun, or even an airweight 38 special and shoot the crap out of it. Blind folded they will feel the same and they work the same, but their values and demands and usually conditions are far apart.
 
To each his own, I shoot this BOA all the time.

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I do happen to have 5 or 6 unfired guns in the safes. I have a name for them, backlog.
 
I have NIB unfired Python and Anaconda. A Viper (never seen/heard of them before) sounds like a fitting edition.

What would one like yours, NIB, run for?
 
TheGoldenState:

1)The original Viper was only produced for one year in 1977 but, later in about 1993 there was another Viper produced as a parts clean up gun.

2)A NIB Viper has great appeal to Snake collectors-especially, if they need one to fill a niche in their Colt collection. The value is hard to predict and is dependent on marketing conditions and on collector demand at any given time(etc.). Prices have been steadily increasing on premium condition Vipers recently-just like other Colt "Snake" revolvers.:eek::)
 
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